Outreach Staff Create New Earth Science Videos
August 3, 2012
Our SESDA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Outreach Team played key roles in creating two new six-minute data animations entitled, "Earth's Water Cycle" and "The Ocean – a Driving Force for Weather and Climate" . Both animations represent a joint endeavor between NASA JPL's Solar System Visualization Project and NASA GSFC, and are sponsored by the ESDIS Project at GSFC. Both animations are unique in that they showcase NASA's contributions in studying Earth as a set of interrelated systems by visualizing a variety of NASA EOSDIS data sets across multiple data centers, platforms and from multiple NASA sensors.
The first is titled "Earth's Water Cycle" and features data that show the transport of Earth's water in the atmosphere, over land and back to the ocean. It showcases fresh water availability, water storage and water cycle variability, showing the impact of extreme water cycle variability both on Earth's interrelated systems and humans worldwide. See it at http://youtu.be/oaDkph9yQBs.
The second, "The Ocean – A Driving Force for Weather and Climate", uses Earth science data from a variety of NASA satellites to measure physical oceanography parameters such as ocean currents, ocean winds, sea surface height and sea surface temperature. These measurements, in combination with atmospheric measurements such as surface air temperature, precipitation and clouds are used to help communicate visually the ocean’s impact on weather and climate and what this means for life here on Earth. You can watch it at http://youtu.be/6vgvTeuoDWY.
Questions? You can contact our team at eosdis-outreach@lists.nasa.gov
